2005-03-18 - WCM: "Editor's choice award!"

How would we describe the Shuttle XPC Barebone SN25P in just one sentence? Chances are we could offer no better than the one the editors of the Austrian magazine WCM offered: "A machine that really begs for a powerful graphics card to serve as a mighty gaming station." Indeed, there is no "smaller, faster, better platform for a high-class gaming PC" than the Shuttle XPC Barebone SN25P. Final result: "Editor's choice award" for the new barebone from Shuttle.

The Shuttle XPC Barebone SN25P is made for everyone - children, mothers, fathers, or grandmothers - anyone who takes gaming seriously! Power is of course the most important thing for a gamer - and this SFF Barebone has plenty of it. NVIDIA's brand new nForce4 MCP chipset is one of the reasons for its "outstanding performance values," allowing it to keep up with bigger PCs.

It isn't just the gamers that need to keep their cool - so do their PCs. No surprise then that the Shuttle XPC Barebone SN25P offers "good cooling" without being "too loud." Thanks to Shuttle's SilentX technology, the power supply is "very quiet." Another important issue is the number of ports and possibility of future upgrades. To that end, this Shuttle XPC Barebone has two PCI Express slots, four USB 2.0 ports, 8-channel-sound, FireWire ports and Gigabit-LAN. Furthermore, with space for three S-ATA hard drives with RAID support, the Shuttle XPC Barebone SN25P is a truly brilliant gaming machine.

Conclusion:

"A smaller, faster, better platform for a high-class SFF PC isn't available anywhere at this time."

(Source: WCM, Issue 228, March 2005)